Cooling towers at ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih. CC BY-SA 3.0 Dogvillan / Wikipedia. Some rights reserved.
The past year has seen a wave of mobilisation inside Kryvyi Rih's mining and metal complex, particularly at the flagship foreign ArcelorMittal plant, one of the largest metal plants in the world. After weeks of negotiations, workers officially announced a labour dispute in late March. Then, on 14 May, railway workers in Kremenchuk started a work-to-rule action over conditions and pay, which was then taken up in soldidarity by railway workers at AMKR on 16 May. This solidarity action catalysed an existing dispute over pay at AMKR. AMKR plant management announced that it was shutting operations on 17 May.
